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Economics of American Negro Slavery Series

Investigator(s): Robert W. Fogel, and Stanley L. Engerman

The Economics of American Negro Slavery series was
developed by Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman at the University
of Rochester with data originally obtained from the notarized bills of
sale at the New Orleans Notarial Archival Office, and probate records
for southern counties obtained from the Genealogical Society library of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah.
These data were also included in the project: "The Relative Efficiency
of Slave and Free Agriculture in 1850 and 1860", funded by the National
Science Foundation. Data are provided on slave sale transactions, and
personal characteristics of individuals appearing in group sale
transactions (wherever possible), including characteristics of one
"principal slave of record", and characteristics of children sold in a
group with the principal slave of record.